Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess found hanging in his prison cell, Gestapo boss Klaus Barbie gets life.

ALL RIGHT. THIS COMES HOURS AFTER JESSE HOFFMAN’S TEAM FILED AN EMERGENCY PETITION TO TRY AND GET THE SUPREME COURT TO HALT THE EXECUTION. BY THIS METHOD. WDSU’S ARIELLE BRUMFIELD IS LIVE WITH ...

Texas death row inmate David Leonard Wood's execution, which had been set for this week, was halted by a Texas appeals court on Tuesday. Wood, 67, has spent nearly 33 years on death row and had ...

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the killings of six girls ...

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The Supreme Court denied a death row inmate’s last-ditch effort to avoid execution Friday night, clearing the way for the first execution by firing squad in the United States in 15 years.

A South Carolina man was executed by firing squad Friday — the first execution of its kind in the U.S. since 2010 and just the fourth firing squad execution since the death penalty resumed in ...

The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has cleared the way for Louisiana to resume plans to execute death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. next week with nitrogen gas. The New Orleans-based federal ...

South Carolina has scheduled the execution of an inmate convicted of fatally shooting an off-duty police officer, which would make him the fifth person the state put to death since it resumed ...

A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next week. US District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary ...